Classic route
RE 11 Mosel
Luxembourg → Koblenz · Luxembourg · Germany
RE 11 Mosel in pictures
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- Distance
- 159 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 18 min
- Average speed
- 69 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- CFL / DB Regio
- Train
- SÜWEX · CFL
- Countries
- Luxembourg, Germany
- In service since
- 1879
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The RE 11 follows the Moselle from Luxembourg into Germany, boring through the 4.2 km Kaiser-Wilhelm-Tunnel at Cochem to bypass the river’s huge loop.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 319058 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of RE 11 (Zug-Nr. 5109)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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